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Piano Sonata

Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers Piano Festival Ruhr, 2019. Piano: Maki Namekawa. The biggest thing with new music is how to realize it. It’s an issue of how to write it down but it’s also about how to actually play it. – Philip Glass In late-June 2019 Glass discussed his Piano Sonata, and his relationship to…
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Piano Quintet No. 1 “Annunciation”

Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned by the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation, Mike and Amber Kutayli, Rhonda Seacrest, and the Hixson Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Piano, Violin x 2, Viola, Cello October 3, 2019 Kimball Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, Chiara String Quartet, pianist Paul Barnes. Piano Quintet at Wise…
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Quartet Satz

Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned by Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Published by Kronos: Fifty for the Future Project. 2x Violin, Viola, Cello Kronos – Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 1/17/2018. Quartet Satz at Kronos Quartet

Whistleblower

Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Days and Nights Festival, October 2014 (work in progress); City Winery NYC, May 2016 (completion). “Whistleblower” was inspired by the confrontation between Edward Snowden and the US Government, but in fact the main character in the piece is Allen Ginsberg, and the FBI.

Perpetulum

20′ Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned for Third Coast Percussion with lead support from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. November 9th, 2018 – Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL; Third Coast Percussion The work was co-commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, San Francisco Performances, Town…
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JANE

60′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by National Geographic Society. large orchestra JANE is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed and written by Brett Morgen about primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Winter Garden Theatre on September 10, 2017. The film was also screened with…
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Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (arr. by Glass)

Written by Bob Dylan. Arranged by Philip Glass. As part of the benefit project “Chimes of Freedom” Philip Glass arranged Bob Dylan’s song “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right,” which was performed and recorded by Kronos Quartet with additional arrangement by Kronos Quartet. Track Info at Apple Music.

Passacaglia for Piano

Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned by Aarhus, Denmark. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Special thanks to: Linda Brumbach, Vladimir Zaslavsky, Richard Guérin, Juliana Engberg, and Don Christensen. November 18, 2017 at Aarhus, Denmark composed for and premiered by pianist Anton Batagov. Passacaglia for Piano at Wise Music Classical RECORDINGS: Passacaglia for Piano

String Quartet No. 8

Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. String Quartet No.8 was commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival and Carnegie Hall. 2vn, va, vc The World Premiere was given by JACK Quartet in Alloway Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba on February 1st, 2018. String Quartet No. 8 at Wise Music Classical

Piano Concerto No.3

34′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. solo piano and string orchestra September 22nd, 2017, Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston MA with Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry A Far Cry – World Premiere Manitoba Chamber Orchestra – Canadian Premiere Anne Manson, Music Director January 23rd, 2018, Westminster Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba Boulder…
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